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I just installed Ubuntu 13.10. I went to the Google Chrome website using default Firefox, downloaded 64 bit chrome, went through the process of the software center, and opened Chrome.

However, every time I open the Google Chrome icon on the Launcher, it just glows yellow while a different icon called Google Accounts - Google Chrome opens.

How do I get rid of this Google Accounts icon and just let the original Google Chrome open ?

Executing gedit google-chrome.desktop in /usr/share/applications yielded:

*(gedit:2454): WARNING**: Could not load Gedit repository : Typelib fil for namespace 'GTKsource' version 3.0 not found.

When I executed gedit google-chrome.desktop in Terminal, the gedit page was empty (it did not display any contents for the google-chrome.desktop file).

How to fix these ?

EDIT 2: Executing google-chrome from terminal opens the regular Google Chrome, but it runs from terminal (meaning that if I end the Terminal session, I end the Chrome session as well).

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  • do ls /usr/share/applications. Find the google-chrome.desktop, or something related to google chrome. Open the terminal and type gedit ThatName.desktop and post the contents of that file here.
    – nitishch
    Commented Nov 16, 2013 at 9:39
  • Hello There! I did what you said to do and this is what I got:*(gedit:2454): WARNING**: Could not load Gedit repository : Typelib fil for namespace 'GTKsource' version 3.0 not found. When I did Getid google-chrome.desktop, the gedit page was empty. I tried again and I got the same message but the only thing that changed was (gedit:3289) the second time around.
    – ubuntutest
    Commented Nov 16, 2013 at 22:07
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    what was the output of ls /usr/share/applications? Does it contain google chrome related file?
    – nitishch
    Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 5:24
  • Yes, there is a file called "google-chome.desktop" in the list when I execute that command.
    – ubuntutest
    Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 5:38
  • Open that file and add the contents of file in your question. I am not sure if the problem is really in that file, but I guess it is. And also try google-chrome in terminal and tell us what happens.
    – nitishch
    Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 6:47

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In Terminal run :

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

If the resulting Gedit is empty, add following lines to it (Copy and Paste):

If it is not empty, edit the available content in it to become as following:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=
Name=Google Chrome
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=google-chrome %F
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=google-chrome
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupWMClass=google-chrome
StartupNotify=true
Actions=NewWindow;Incognito;TempProfile;
X-AppInstall-Package=google-chrome

[Desktop Action NewWindow]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=google-chrome
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Desktop Action Incognito]
Name=Open a New Window in incognito mode
Exec=google-chrome --incognito
TargetEnvironment=Unity

[Desktop Action TempProfile]
Name=Open a New Window with a temporary profile
Exec=google-chrome --temp-profile
TargetEnvironment=Unity
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  • Thank you for the answer. Could you please explain what it does? And did you just take the text from your Gedit file for Google Chrome?
    – ubuntutest
    Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 9:05
  • Thank you again, it worked. However I do have some questions: For one, what does changing from %U to %F do? Secondly, I got this message twice when I closed the Gedit window after I edited the file: (gedit:3381): GtK -WARNING**: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
    – ubuntutest
    Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 9:41
  • First thing, to change or write in system files you have to gain root previlege. To gain it you need to add gksudo infront the gedit command. when %U is used, only that user account can open the application. Sometimes there are situations even I did install the application, Ubuntu take it as root account and doesnt give me the chance to open it. This happens when there is only one user account there. When %F is used, any user can use this. So what I do is change it to %F.
    – user224082
    Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 10:20
  • Thank you for the explanation. If I am the only user on the machine, should I change it back to %U? And could you please explain what the error message I received means?
    – ubuntutest
    Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 21:10

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